While I enjoyed my session on OS X last year, it seemed clear there was a need for us to share with each other what we're doing and how we're doing it. This session will be preceded by a short web survey about MacOS X deployment, management and integration. The results will be available online before the conference and at the session. The survey responses will guide our discussion of what we are doing and how we are doing it. We can share tips, links, successes, failures, or whatever. This'll be more a working and networking session rather than a formal presentation.

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Scott Krajewski, Augsburg College

How do you deal with allowing your off campus users to easily send email through your smtp server without being an open relay? What do you do you do about students generating or relaying too much mail? How do you even decide what is too much? What do you tell your users when they forward you spam and want you to "fix it"? How do you explain forged email to users? The above questions and more will be discussed along with how we are all trying answer them.

Austin Robinson Coolidge, Carleton College
Tami Aune, Gustavus Adolphus College
Chris Gregg, University of St. Thomas

This session provides an opportunity for attendees to discuss course management systems and other course provisioning tools. Carleton and Augsburg will briefly describe their experiences with the Stanford CourseWork sources, which were released to open source in Summer 2003. Want to know what other schools' plans are? Want to share what you are doing for course provisioning? Join us!

Bill Jones, Augsburg College
Les LaCroix, Carleton College

Ed Loebach, St. Mary's College
Tom Walker, Luther College
Matt Linngren, Augsburg College

Paula Lackie, Carleton College

12:45

1:15

Tour of ITS Facilities
Meet at Language and Dining Center entrance

Tours begin at 12:45 and 1:15, and you can see either the Center for Math and Computing (central labs, servers and networking) or the Language and Dining Center (classroom technologies, networking). Take both tours to see everything.

Facilitator: Keith Landa, Concordia College

Luther has recently purchased, installed and is now tweaking "Campus Manager" - a system which allows them to manage individual ports on switches, turn ports and off, and move ports to 'quarantined' VLANS where the only URL they can get to is an in-house web-site which advises the user to disinfect their computer.

Andrew Olson, Luther College

Most commercial course management systems (ex. Blackboard, WebCT) integrate poorly with the desktop environment that faculty use on a daily basis to do their work. This session will demonstrate several tools built in Zope and Python that help faculty work more efficiently and utilize a CMS more thoroughly. Some of these tools include:
* a content manager that allows faculty to drop files in a folder in their network space that becomes instantly available in several Blackboard course websites
* an office hours database that automatically displays office hours in course websites
* a course roster tool that integrates student ID photos to make a printable photo roster

William Jones & Robert Bill, Augsburg College

The design, planning, and deployment of a high availability cluster over two platforms: Windows and Netware. Includes tips for running a cluster and Augsburg's experience with a production Netware cluster.

Brad Christ, Augsburg College

The evolution, challenges and end user experience during project "Snowball". We will cover the project from how it came to be, to a solution that involved removing the Novell client from academic desktops, re-architecting file and print services and migrating the user base to Win XP and OS X ...all in under eight months from start to finish.

Julie McFadden & Carly Born, Carleton College